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Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 6 April 2005.

Oral evidence

Taken before the Committee of Public Accounts

on Wednesday 24 November 2004

Members present:

Mr Edward Leigh, in the Chair

Mr Richard Bacon	Mr Brian Jenkins
Mr David Curry	Jim Sheridan

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Mr Tim Burr, Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General, further examined.

Ms Paula Diggle, Second Treasury Officer of Accounts, further examined.

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REPORT BY THE COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL:

Department of Trade & Industry:

The United Kingdom's Civil Space Activities (HC 359)

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CONTENTS

Witnesses: Sir Robin Young, KCB, Permanent Secretary, Department of Trade & Industry; Dr Colin Hicks FRSC, Director General, British National Space Centre; Professor Ian Halliday, Chief Executive, The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council; and Professor Colin Pillinger CBE FRS, Head of Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute, the Open University, examined.

Question Numbers

1-19

20-39

40-59

60-79

80-99

100-119

120-130

Supplementary memorandum submitted by the Department of Trade and Industry

Supplementary memorandum submitted by Professor Colin Pillinger

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Prepared 9 June 2005